I never believed that any administration would run roughshod over the constitution as much as that of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I was wrong. The present administration is worse. To sue the state of Arizona passing a measure to enforce federal immigration law is one thing. To threaten to sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio is beyond belief. These events mark a dangerous extension of federal power against state and local governments. Hopefully these efforts will not succeed, but the suit and threat of a suit should never have happened. Does this administration believe that it can run over the will of the people? Apparently so.

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the Democratic-led House of Representatives, is even worse. She desires to investigate those “financing” the opponents of the mosque in New York. Never mind that 63% of the American people oppose the mosque, and never mind that the issue is not one of religious tolerance, but of a lack of propriety. The Roman Catholic Church once stopped a convent from locating near Auschwitz, the Pope stopped that project from going forward due to quite understandable protests. Auschwitz, like Ground Zero, is hallowed ground. Just as it is unfitting to build a convent near Auschwitz, so it is unfitting to build a mosque near Ground Zero. This is not an argument by nutcases; even if one disagrees with the argument, it is a reasonable one. To investigate opponents of the mosque smacks of government harassment of private citizens and organizations in the worst way. Sometimes I wonder how far the United States is from passing its own “Enabling Act.”

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Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, about the NDAA and the impending war to be waged against Iran–http://www.prisonplanet.com/under-ndaa-obama-can-release-death-sqauds-on-americans.html

The above is a fairly long interview with a very interesting man. He was a class mate of Mitt Romney and remarks that Romney was viewed as a pirate at Harvard. What Professor Boyle has to say is very important and timely regarding certain parts of the NDAA.
I also found myself concurring with his remarks about the prestige universities with their brain washing. In his opinion America is on the verge of becoming a totalitarian state. He was put on the no fly list for refusing to tell the FBI about his clients (he also does private law practice in the area of international law)–of course telling them would have violated client attorney privilege.
When we have Homeland Security holding a US Senator on his way to Congress for almost two hours, then I think we are just about there. When we have a president who does not meet one of the three requirements for the presidency–“natural born citizen” which has been thoroughly research by sincere legal scholars and found to mean born in the land to two citizen parents–then there is not much left of the nation. [Interestingly the two most prominent legal scholars who have worked on this are Christians and probably Catholic given their Italian names!]
I am not a fan of sensationalism but do think we are in a very serious position now having in effect lost all our rights since it takes only a couple of soldiers at your door to disappear you legally, Hitlerism crept in on the educated in Germany who kept waiting for the big thing that would awaken everyone. It never happened.

With the recent law allowing the president to authorize the killing of any U. S. citizen suspected of terrorism without trial is de facto the end of what was left of the American republic–unless Ron Paul and a sympathetic congress are elected and reverse the law. I agree–I think within ten years, barring turning back current trends, the U.S. will be de facto totalitarian.

In 1933 Thomas Mann and his wife left Germany and moved to Switzerland where Herman Hesse had already gone in the 1920’s. And there were others who left earlier and later. Mann’s wife was Jewish so their six children would also be so considered. At some point in the following years Auden (who was gay) married one of his daughters in order to get her out of Germany. Not all the educated Jews were as foresightful as Thomas Mann.
I was thinking this morning about the fact that there are always people in a society who see the shape of things to come–but they hardly need prophetic powers. Still in his book CROWDS AND POWER Elias Canetti recounts his time in Vienna in the early ’30’s with a Dr. Sonne who accurately foretold the coming war and in some remarkable detail.
This election is America’s last chance to stop the otherwise inevitable totalitarianism. I suppose if Paul is rejected that should be viewed as The People’s decision to continue on to an extremely destructive future.
I imagine the day may come as it did for Heidegger where you will be asked by Homeland Security to take a loyalty oath and perhaps denounce some of your fellow professors!
The level of compassion in America has dropped rather low. Lewis’ space trilogy comes to mind. There are many of his characters about in America now. Miss Hardcastle prefigures the woman at the head of Homeland Security. But here things may not turn out so well. I believe we are not far now from the point where you will have to sanitize your blog or find it shut down. Best of luck.